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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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